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Scotland Outdoors

Earth, Wind and Water

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Mark visits Alex Brewster at his farm near Pitlochry. Ten years ago, Alex changed his approach to farming to a more regenerative one, conserving and rehabilitating the soil. He shows Mark the impact that change has made to his land and explains how it all happened.

Lake District climber Anna Taylor became the first woman to complete the 'classic rock' challenge all under her own steam. She tells Rachel about how she cycled between the routes on the challenge and more about her climbing career.

The Cairngorm Gliding Club, located near Kingussie, has been going for nearly 60 years. Rachel heads for a visit and of course, a flight in a glider, to see what attracts people to taking to the skies.

Bad weather can certainly have an impact on how we feel mentally, but what about our physical health? Writer and psychologist Louise Kenward has put together an anthology of nature writing from the point of view of people living with disability and chronic illness. She spoke to Helen Needham for the Scotland Outdoors podcast, and we hear an excerpt where they discuss one of the contributing writers who is physically affected by rain.

The Scottish Government has committed to creating at least one new National Park by the spring of 2026. This week, we hear from one of the members of the group behind the bid for Lochaber to be awarded National Park status.

Sounding Line is a large-scale ceramic installation addressing the devastating effect of marine sonar, sound used for navigating, on whales and other cetaceans. Artist and ceramicist Mella Shaw has made sculptures from clay that include bone from a beached whale. Helen goes to find out more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?

0:06.6

Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,

0:12.7

and enjoy longer versions of the music they've picked.

0:15.7

Good things come to those who don't wait.

0:18.7

Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.

0:22.8

This Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart from BBC Radio

0:28.4

Scotland.

0:32.9

Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:35.4

As you know, we build the Scotland Outdoors podcast from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland,

0:40.1

which is called Out of Doors.

0:41.6

And as ever, we've been talking about the weather.

0:45.4

Oh, the weather.

0:48.8

This is downright weird.

0:51.0

Okay, we've got the fire on, but it's utterly unnecessary.

0:54.1

It's 12 degrees. You know, we it's utterly unnecessary. It's 12 degrees.

0:56.5

You know, we're nearly at Christmas. It's December, northeast of Scotland, and it's 12 degrees.

1:01.7

Downright strange. Good morning, I'm Mark Stephen right beside me. The other side of a

1:05.8

completely unnecessary fire here at Beach Grove, Rachel Stewart. I've actually got my jacket

1:10.2

on just because I feel you've got to because it's December.

1:12.7

But you're right here with no jacket on.

1:14.6

No, I don't care anymore.

1:16.7

And this morning I actually hung my washing out

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